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Reputation: 1269

React - Webpack module.exports require

Watching the Webpack course for React.js on YouTube, the author of the video showed the content.jsx file where require and module.exports are used

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saying that "using require we link to the react folder and also for react-dom, then export the Content class", my question is why, instead of require, it does not use import React from 'react' for react-dom import React from 'react- dom' and export export Content or export default Content

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shadowtime2000
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Reputation: 128

Most likely the tutorial you are watching is using Webpack 1 which uses the older CommonJS module format. require was how people imported stuff, and module.exports was how they exported stuff. Now a days CommonJS isn't used as much for frontend development because ES modules are being used more often and support tree shaking (that is a link to an article I wrote on the topic).

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